Is this the new king of adventure touring? Or just another wannabe with more show than go?

Only time and some real world riding will clear that up, my only concern would be the price of replacement parts if/when you eventually get it wrong and it has a lie down. But you can say this about most of the larger capacity adventure bikes.

The new for 2015 Yamaha R1 was getting a lot of attention at Motorcycle Live 2014 when I was there, for those of you that missed it here is the promo video. Still not sure about the voice over, see what you think.